The message to Islam's powerful was clear: Cross the Old Man of the Mountain at your peril.

The Venetian traveler Marco Polo, one of the first Europeans to travel to the Far East, gave an account of the Old Man of the Mountain and the Order of Assassins (or Hashashin, supposedly from their use of hashish to dull their senses before committing murder).

5: Dick Hamilton, president of the Old Man of the Mountain Legacy Fund, stands beside the largest of the four original turnbuckles that held the rock formation in place for decades before its fall in 2003.

The freshman state rep from Nashua sponsors a bill calling for a likeness of the Old Man of the Mountain to be returned to the site where it foil in 2003, saying: "Some geologists say it can't be done, but no geologist says it's impossible.

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